Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

And hope is but a dream of those that wake.

Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it.

Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten.

However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

For every individual who gets killed, someone should build a school or teach a child. We really need to balance things with positivity.

I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.